2025 as film

I only have a few minutes before I need to head out to an umpiring shift (ah, winter league...so far it's been pretty mild weather, but tonight will be in the 30s), so just a quick post today and one I largely lift from someone else.

Once again, that someone else is Craig Calcaterra, who in his Cup of Coffee newsletter today recounts a social media prompt that read "The movie that was number one at the box office on your tenth birthday is how your 2025 will turn out for you." Craig turned 10 in the spring of 1983, when the third (or sixth, depending on your particular thinking) Star Wars movie premiered. Here is his response:

In a time of rising fascism and authoritarianism I'd like my 2025 to turn out the way "Return of the Jedi" did. If we're being literal about it that means that (a) my adorable little friends will defeat my enemies after which they will roast and eat them while I will, personally, with the help of some barely-controlled rage, beat the crap out of either J.D. Vance or Elon Musk at which point they will switch to my side of things, throw Trump down a bottomless shaft, and then themselves die. That's a scenario that is pretty unlikely to actually transpire but, as they say, rebellions are built on hope. 

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[But if we] go with the number one film immediately after my tenth birthday, it'd be the "Saturday Night Fever" sequel, "Staying Alive." That movie is horrible in conception and execution and is basically unwatchable, but the title sets what is at least a moderately realistic goal for me in 2025, and I feel far more comfortable with that. 

As usual, Craig, we reach.

For the record, the number-one film on my tenth birthday was Superman—The Movie, which while not as on-target as Return of the Jedi is for Craig, still works in that, like Superman, I would also like to fly fast enough to go back in time and save Lois Lane (or someone) before delivering the egomaniacal greed-obsessed real estate con artist to prison.